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The use of Co-enactment for joint stance-taking in Flemish sign language interactions 在佛兰芒手语互动中使用 "共同表演 "进行联合表态

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.10.007

Fien Andries

This article investigates the use of co-enactment for stance-taking in Flemish Sign Language (VGT) interactions. Enactment, i.e., a signer or speaker combining “bodily movements, postures and eye gaze to ‘construct’ actions and dialogue in order to ‘show’ characters, events and points of view” (Hodge and Ferrara, 2014, p. 373) serves as a resource not only for depicting characters and events but also for expressing the signer's stance on these characters and events. Furthermore, through enactment, signers invite their interlocutors to adopt their perspective on the events depicted, thus influencing mutual understanding and involvement.

While previous research has extensively explored formal aspects of individual enactments, co-enactments, i.e. sequences in which multiple participants jointly enact the same event, are largely unexplored in signed interactions.

The present study identifies three functions of co-enactments, as evidenced in the data: grounding, joint stance-taking, and joint fantasizing. Furthermore, I examine the sequential unfolding of these enactments, as well as their design, including body partitioning, through which signers simultaneously manage the discourse and enact characters. The results demonstrate that, in contrast to traditional views that depict enactments as solitary activities, co-enactments involve both signers in jointly shaping and evaluating stance objects, thereby facilitating intersubjective conceptualizations of events and stance alignment.

本文研究了在弗拉芒手语（VGT）互动中使用共同表演来表达立场的情况。表演，即手语者或说话者结合 "身体动作、姿势和眼神来'构建'动作和对话，以'展示'人物、事件和观点"（Hodge 和 Ferrara，2014 年，第 373 页），不仅是描绘人物和事件的资源，也是表达手语者对这些人物和事件的立场的资源。此外，通过表演，手语者邀请他们的对话者采纳他们对所描述事件的观点，从而影响相互理解和参与。虽然以往的研究广泛探讨了个人表演的形式方面，但共同表演，即多个参与者共同表演同一事件的序列，在手语互动中大多未被探讨。此外，我还研究了这些共同表演的顺序展开及其设计，包括身体分区，通过身体分区，手语者可以同时管理话语和表演角色。研究结果表明，与将表演描述为单独活动的传统观点不同，共同表演涉及两个手语者共同塑造和评价姿态对象，从而促进了主体间对事件和姿态排列的概念化。

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2024-11-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.10.002

Ping Liu, Jialiang Chen

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No biggie can be a “biggie”: A taxonomical and statistical analysis of the pragmaticalization of no biggie on the basis of pragma-syntactic variation and co-occurring lexical items no biggie 也可以是 "biggie"：基于语用句法变化和共现词项对 no biggie 的语用化进行分类和统计分析

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2024-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.10.003

José Antonio Sánchez Fajardo , Vasiliki Simaki

This study seeks to explore the pragmaticalization process of (it's) no biggie, through a corpus-based taxonomical and statistical examination. The research study involves (i) elaborating a taxonomy of no biggie constructions by exploring the variability of the pragmatic functions and the syntactic features associated with the construction; (ii) monitoring the links between the taxonomical types of no biggie and the parameters of syntactic loci and structure of the construction (e.g. absence of it's); and (iii) determining habitual lexical items that co-occur with the construction. The findings show that the vast majority of (it's) no biggie constructions are used in its abbreviated form no biggie, half of which being employed as a discourse-pragmatic marker (DPM). The correlations between syntactic loci and the taxonomy were tested through Chi-square, which demonstrates that specific pragma–syntactic properties are orderly assigned to extended forms, and that pragmaticalized free-standing constructions (as with DPMs) are generally used in the middle of a clause. The analysis of no biggie collocates also indicates that the pragma-syntactic function of the collocates is oftentimes subject to the syntactic function of the construction types. Finally, a qualitative examination of the taxonomy and their examples confirms that pragma-syntactic variation occurs differently in all the taxonomical types, the DPM no biggie showing the highest degree of variation.

本研究旨在通过基于语料库的分类学和统计学研究，探讨（这）没什么大不了的语用化过程。研究内容包括：(i) 通过探索（它）不大的语用功能和句法特征的变异性，对（它）不大的构式进行分类；(ii) 监测（它）不大的分类类型与构式的句法位置和结构参数（如缺少 it's）之间的联系；(iii) 确定与（它）不大的构式共同出现的惯用词项。研究结果表明，绝大多数（it's） no biggie 结构都是以其缩略形式 no biggie 使用的，其中一半被用作话语语用标记（DPM）。通过Chi-square检验了句法位置和分类法之间的相关性，结果表明，特定的语用句法属性有序地分配给扩展形式，语用化的独立结构（如DPM）一般用在分句的中间。对 no biggie 同位语的分析还表明，同位语的语用功能往往受制于结构类型的句法功能。最后，对分类法及其例子的定性研究证实，语用句法变异在所有分类法类型中都有不同的表现，其中 DPM no biggie 的变异程度最高。

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In memoriam: Emanuel A. Schegloff 1937–2024 悼念伊曼纽尔-谢格洛夫 1937-2024

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2024-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.009

Steven E. Clayman

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Sleep well in Småland, whether you prefer a castle or a hut: Performing persuasion through patterns of you in tourism discourse 无论您喜欢城堡还是小屋，都能在斯莫兰睡个好觉：通过旅游话语中 "您 "的模式进行说服

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2024-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.008

Annelie Ädel, Åsa Öhqvist, Sadjad Shokoohi

Persuasion is especially prominent in genres with a strong aim to affect others’ behaviour. Contemporary persuasion studies often centre on domains such as advertising, politics and media, and the present study targets tourism. Previous work on persuasion in tourism discourse has focused on word choice and collocations, while this study addresses how persuasion is performed through broader rhetorical functions. The English version of the official tourism website for Sweden was compiled into a 53,296-word corpus. Word frequency data showed that you was highly frequent. All examples involving you (N=450) were analysed inductively to identify persuasive rhetorical functions. Seven functions emerged: Specifying tourist identities; Constructing helpful/expert guide; Building rapport; Anticipating reader reactions (focusing on the visitor and/or guide); and Personifying the destination; Presenting options; Imagining scenarios (focusing on the destination). The most frequent function was found to be Constructing helpful/expert guide, whose frequency contrasts sharply to Anticipating reader reactions and Personifying the destination, with the remaining functions falling in between. The frequency analysis details how the seven functions co-occur; it revealed a common pattern of overlapping functions.

说服在以影响他人行为为主要目的的体裁中尤为突出。当代的说服研究通常以广告、政治和媒体等领域为中心，而本研究则以旅游业为目标。以往关于旅游话语中劝说的研究主要集中在选词和搭配上，而本研究则探讨如何通过更广泛的修辞功能来进行劝说。瑞典官方旅游网站的英文版被编译成一个 53,296 字的语料库。词频数据显示，you 的使用频率很高。我们对所有涉及 you 的例子（N=450）进行了归纳分析，以确定说服修辞功能。结果发现有七种功能明确游客身份；构建帮助/专家指南；建立友好关系；预测读者反应（以游客和/或导游为重点）；目的地人格化；提出选择；想象情景（以目的地为重点）。频率最高的功能是 "构建有帮助的/专家指南"，其频率与 "预测读者反应 "和 "目的地人格化 "形成鲜明对比，其余功能介于两者之间。频率分析详细说明了七种功能是如何共同出现的；它揭示了功能重叠的共同模式。

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The complexities and dynamics of pragmatics of sharing on social media 在社交媒体上分享的复杂性和动态实用性

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2024-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.010

Wei Ren

The concept of sharing has undergone significant transformations with the advent of digital technologies and social media. From online forums to social media platforms, the practice of sharing has become increasingly nuanced and multifaceted, which underscores the complexity of online communication. This editorial provides a broad overview of the complexities and dynamics of sharing practices on social media, drawing on insights from relevant literature and the field of pragmatics, and discusses the potential factors that may influence individuals’ sharing practices and pragmatic strategies. Finally, it summarizes the key contributions of each article, highlighting its theoretical and empirical significance.

随着数字技术和社交媒体的出现，分享的概念发生了重大转变。从在线论坛到社交媒体平台，分享的实践变得越来越微妙和多面，这凸显了在线交流的复杂性。这篇社论借鉴了相关文献和实用主义领域的见解，对社交媒体上分享实践的复杂性和动态性进行了广泛概述，并讨论了可能影响个人分享实践和实用主义策略的潜在因素。最后，文章总结了每篇文章的主要贡献，强调了其理论和实证意义。

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“That's amazing!”: Making self-praise work in Japanese conversation "太棒了！"：日语会话中的自我表扬

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.007

Misumi Sadler

As an act of self-disclosure, the speech act of self-praise may be perceived as problematic or inappropriate due to societal expectations, such as politeness preferences. Despite recent growing interest in self-praise, it remains relatively under-researched, particularly in naturally occurring conversation in languages other than English. An examination of 53 hours of Japanese conversation (both telephone and face-to-face) reveals that despite Japanese societal norms against self-praise, speakers do praise themselves, and that this behavior occurs in interactions within both close relationships (i.e., among friends and family members) and distant ones (i.e., in first meetings). However, its relative infrequency indicates that self-praise is a marked social behavior in Japanese conversation. The data also demonstrate some distinctive patterns in the ways in which self-praise is delivered and received depending on the type of conversation. Interactional patterns that emerge in the data illustrate the integral role that coparticipants (i.e., the recipients of speakers’ self-praise) play in making this risky social act possible and appropriate in conversation.

作为一种自我披露行为，自我表扬这一言语行为可能会因为社会期望（如礼貌偏好）而被视为有问题或不恰当。尽管最近人们对自我表扬的兴趣越来越大，但对它的研究仍然相对不足，尤其是在英语以外的其他语言的自然会话中。对 53 个小时的日语会话（包括电话会话和面对面会话）进行研究后发现，尽管日本社会规范反对自我表扬，但说话者确实会自我表扬，而且这种行为既发生在关系密切的人际交往中（如朋友和家人之间），也发生在关系疏远的人际交往中（如初次见面时）。不过，自我表扬的频率相对较低，这表明自我表扬在日语会话中是一种明显的社交行为。数据还表明，根据谈话类型的不同，自我表扬的传递和接收方式也有一些独特的模式。数据中出现的互动模式说明了共同参与者（即说话者自我表扬的接受者）在使这种高风险的社会行为在会话中成为可能和恰当的过程中所扮演的不可或缺的角色。

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Navigating epistemic challenges: Self-initiated self-repair in weight loss discussions within clinical settings 应对认识论挑战：临床环境下减肥讨论中的自我修复

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.003

Liliia Bespala , Miriam Meyerhoff , Charlotte Albury

This paper focuses on the phenomenon of self-initiated self-repair in weight loss discussions within clinical settings. It shows that one of the primary functions of self-repair is to manage epistemics in talk. The study explores repair operations and techniques, shedding light on the linguistic resources employed by doctors and patients to modify knowledge claims in relation to their interactional objectives, the speaker's epistemic status, and the epistemic stance expressed by the interlocutor. Throughout the paper, we demonstrate how self-initiated self-repairs contribute to achieving epistemic balance and congruence in talk between healthcare providers and seekers, supporting the smooth delivery of unsolicited weight loss advice. Data are in British English.

本文重点探讨了在临床环境中减肥讨论中自我发起自我修复的现象。研究表明，自我修复的主要功能之一是管理谈话中的认识论。本研究探讨了修复操作和技巧，揭示了医生和患者在修改知识主张时所使用的语言资源与他们的互动目标、说话者的认识论地位以及对话者所表达的认识论立场之间的关系。在本文中，我们将展示在医疗服务提供者和求医者之间的谈话中，自我发起的自我修复如何有助于实现认识论上的平衡和一致性，从而支持主动减肥建议的顺利传达。数据采用英式英语。

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Temporality and causality in asymmetric conjunction 非对称连接中的时间性和因果性

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2024-09-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.006

Zeming Xu, Markus Steinbach

In contrast to the symmetric logical conjunction, sentences conjoined by the conjunctive coordinator and can be asymmetric. In asymmetric conjunction, the temporal or causal relation in the coordinated sentence is related to the order of conjuncts. Various accounts are proposed to address this asymmetry at the semantics–pragmatics interface. The pragmatic approaches maintain a minimal conjunctive semantics of the coordinator and attribute additional meanings to pragmatics, while the semantic approaches assign a richer semantics to and that blocks backward temporal or causal relations. The present study addresses whether these backward relations are incompatible with and. Using an acceptability judgement task, we compared coordinated sentences with different semantic relations. The results indicate that sentences with backward relations received higher ratings than sentences with semantic inconsistencies, against the prediction of the semantic approaches, and reversing a temporal relation is considered as worse than reversing a causal relation. The new empirical evidence provides support for pragmatic approaches and shows that while temporality between the conjuncts is more sensitive to the order of the clauses, causality relies more on the assumed relation between a cause and its effect.

与对称逻辑连词不同，由连词协调符和连词协调符连成的句子可以是不对称的。在非对称连词中，协调句中的时间或因果关系与连词的顺序有关。为了解决语义-语用界面上的这种不对称，人们提出了各种说法。语用学方法维持了连词的最低连词语义，并赋予语用学额外的意义，而语义学方法则赋予连词更丰富的语义，阻断了后向的时间关系或因果关系。本研究探讨了这些后向关系是否与和不相容。通过可接受性判断任务，我们比较了具有不同语义关系的协调句子。结果表明，与语义方法的预测相反，具有反向关系的句子比语义不一致的句子获得的评分更高，而且颠倒时间关系被认为比颠倒因果关系更糟糕。新的经验证据为语用方法提供了支持，并表明连接词之间的时间性对分句的顺序更敏感，而因果性则更依赖于假定的因果关系。

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“By then you'd say ‘why hadn't I hung on a little bit longer?’”: Ventriloquizing as indirectness in Chinese medical interaction "到那时，你会说'为什么我不多坚持一会儿呢？中医互动中的间接口技

IF 1.8 1区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2024-09-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.002

Linlin Fan (范琳琳) , Yongping Ran (冉永平)

Ventriloquizing, where a speaker adopts another's voice or identity to communicate one's own thoughts, is a form of indirectness that remains understudied, particularly in Chinese medical interactions. This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of indirectness by examining instances of ventriloquizing employed by medical professionals (MPs) in China. Our analysis reveals that MPs utilize ventriloquizing by attributing speech to themselves, their interlocutors or third parties (such as patients or their family members), or sometimes unspecified individuals. Through this strategic linguistic technique, MPs mitigate complaints, advocate medical suggestions, and informs patients and families of potential risks, all while delicately navigating various interactional concerns such as doctor-patient rapport and issues of medical liability. This paper argues that MPs' employment of ventriloquizing serves to decenter themselves, enhance message authority, and maintain relational harmony, thereby achieving both relational and transactional goals in medical interactions. This practice reflects Confucianism-based medical ethics in the Chinese medical context.

口技，即说话者采用他人的声音或身份来传达自己的思想，是一种间接性形式，但对其研究尚少，尤其是在中国的医疗互动中。本文旨在通过研究中国医务人员（MPs）使用腹语的实例，加深对间接性的理解。我们的分析表明，医务人员在使用腹语时，会将话语归属于自己、对话者或第三方（如患者或其家属），有时也会归属于不特定的个人。通过这种策略性的语言技巧，国会议员可以减轻投诉、宣传医疗建议、告知患者和家属潜在风险，同时巧妙地处理各种互动问题，如医患关系和医疗责任问题。本文认为，医务人员使用腹语的目的是为自己去中心化，增强信息的权威性，维护关系的和谐，从而实现医疗互动中关系和交易的双重目标。这种做法反映了中国医疗环境中以儒家思想为基础的医疗伦理。

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